From: Abder-rahman Ali <abder.rahman.ali@...>
Date: 2010-06-19T02:50:32+09:00
Subject: Re: String comparison. Why does Ruby consider this true?

Abder-rahman Ali wrote:
> When I try for example to compare the following strings in Ruby, I get
> "true".
> 
> puts 'Xeo' < 'ball'
> 
> When I make 'Xeo' start with a lowercase letter, i get 'false'
> 
> puts 'xeo' < 'ball'
> 
> The second statement is clear, but why when I capitalize 'Xeo' I get
> true?
> 
> Thanks.

The "Learn to Program" book by Chris Pine mentions that computers order 
capital letters as coming before lowercase letters. So, can it be 
explained then by this?

Thanks.
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